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Marshall Mcluhan

>>18959500
>Weirdly, Audiobooks has grown

This actually makes a lot of sense. Again, I go into much more detail in the video I linked in my earlier post (>>18959330). But Marshall Mcluhan was talking about this trend of aural domination in the 60's, and today it has totally manifested.

Listening to something isn't as isolating as quietly having to read something. And many of my generation (zoomers and late millennials) have been conditioned through the instantaneous characteristics of modern technology and the internet to prefer the aural.

Alright OP, I highly recommend reading the works of Marshall Mcluhan (Gutenberg Galaxy, but if thats too confusing than go with Understanding Media first). Mcluhan will help you understand what technology is doing to you, and what it's done to humanity since the creation of the phonetic alphabet.

If you just want to understand the state of modern computer technology and the motivations behind it, I recommend reading What The Dormouse Said by John Markoff and Cyberia by Douglass Rushkoff. The club named Cyberia in Serial Experiments Lain is literally a reference to the book, and Rushkoff actually gets name dropped in the Conspiracy episode